George Lucas Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Secret Love, Film

• Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

  George Lucas

  Film, Easy, Hard

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

  George Lucas

  Directors, Scripts, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Different, Done

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

• I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Crazy, Mean

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

  George Lucas

  Motivational, Skills, Psychology

  "the force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

• In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

  George Lucas

  Ice Cream, Together, Kind

• I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

  George Lucas

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

• Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

  George Lucas

  Fire, Elements, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.

  George Lucas

  Discipline, Identity, Able

• No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

  George Lucas

  Luck, Thanks, Film

  George Lucas, Sally Kline (1999). “George Lucas: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."

  George Lucas

  Struggle, School, Careers

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.

  George Lucas

  Successful, People, Sometimes

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

  George Lucas

  Moving, Rooms, Gone

  "Exclusive: A Rare Sit-Down with Mr. George Lucas". Interview with Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. March 17, 2008.

• I felt that one of the major issues in the third film is that Luke is finally on his own and has to fight Vader and the Emperor by himself. If you get a sense that Yoda or Ben is there to help him or to somehow influence him, it diminishes the power of the scene.

  George Lucas

  Fighting, Issues, Helping

• As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation.

  George Lucas

  Country, Thinking, People

  "'Sith' Invites Bush Comparisons". Interview with Ellen Crean, www.cbsnews.com. May 16, 2005.

• I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

  George Lucas

  Want, Film

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

  George Lucas

  Ideas, Trying, Film

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

  George Lucas

  Occupation, Film, Easy

• I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.

  George Lucas

  Children, Heritage, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It's a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, "That's exactly what I wanted. I got everything I needed. I made it just perfect. I'm going to put it out there."

  George Lucas

  Hands, Perfect, Film

  Source: movieweb.com

• As I talk to film students now especially, I say, "The easiest job you'll ever get is to try to make your first film." That's the easy one to get, is the first film because nobody knows whether you can make a film or not.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Trying, Firsts

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

  George Lucas

  Self, People, Criticism

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Levels, Adequate

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